Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: RFC - named loop devices... | Date | Tue, 21 May 2002 17:11:34 -0200 |
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On 20 May 2002 22:55, Ian Molton wrote: > I havent thought about this too much, but... > > When /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts the umount command will fail > to unmount loopback mounted filesystems properly.
I have such symlink!
> I was wondering if a solution to this would be to introduce 'named' > loopback devices. > > with named loop devices, umount will then know that mount was the > creator of a loopback device that it mounted, and can safely destroy it. > > at present, mounting and unmounting disc images causes one to run out of > loopback devices rather rapidly. > > If I were to knock up a patch to implement named loop devices, would it > stand a chance of being accepted? > > also, how should this work? should the name be that of the creating > process or should it just be a field that the creator can fill in as it > pleases?
Have no time to think about this now, but will test any patches - I want /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts to become standard practice -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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